"Night" by Elie Wiesel -Preface of the New Translation

I was recommended this book by a co-worker who loves to read and has a huge library of books.  We talked about how interesting this blog would be to read after reading the entire book. To be able to document this experience is pretty exciting to me as I am not much of a reader.

I started reading this while on a short break at work. My co-worker Melissa gave me just a few details prior and since it had to do with the holocaust so I immediately was sold.  I really enjoy documentary or real life story movies.  This book is a revision of the original that was 45 years ago and now his wife helped re-translate and write this version with a more original sentiment. The author was a new writer and had lost some of the story in translation and due to publisher requests.

The first sentence of the preface reads, "If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one."  This instantly sent me a message telling me that this story really means a lot to the author.
He really goes on to just talk about what most people know about the holocaust. Like that the Nazis in Germany were killing Jews by the hundreds and thousands all over Europe. Or that Jewish men, women and children and the Jewish culture trying to be erased forever in history. So many young boys like himself would be witnesses of so much tradgedy but would never be able to have the words to say or ever really be understood.

He originally wrote this book in his mother's tongue in Jiddish.  He explained that in order for this book to be published it needed to be translated into French and English; also needing to make some cuts to the original manuscript.

Here is an example of the Yiddish version translated: "In the begining there was faith-which is childish; trust- which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous."
The book goes on with more quotes from the original translations of the Yiddish version and it is very deep and dark and you almost feel like it's happening to you.
I am definitley hooked and excited to keep reading!